Carbon Footprint Exercisepart of Cutting Edge:Climate Change:Activities We designed a three-step assignment for students in introductory geoscience that asks them to calculate their carbon footprint during one specific week. The goal of the assignment is to increase student awareness ...

What Should We Do About Global Warming?part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples This module contains an 8-lesson curriculum to study greenhouse gases and global warming using data and visualizations. The students will summarize the issue in a mock debate or a presentation. -

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Mock Environmental Summitpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples At the end of a six-week class or unit on global warming, students role-play representatives from various countries and organizations at an international summit on global warming. -

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Radiocarbon dating projectpart of Cutting Edge:Rates and Time:Teaching Activities This is an example of an activity used in a Quaternary Geochronology course, in which a small group of students (3-4) is tasked with transforming a set of activity measurements into radiocarbon ages and calibrated ...

Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventorypart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Campus-Based Learning:Examples Students conduct a greenhouse gas emission inventory for their college or university. Students analyze findings and present information to the college or university community. -

Google Earth Tours of Glacier Changepart of Activities A detailed Google Earth tour of glacier change over the last 50 years is given in class as an introduction. Students are then asked to select from a group of glaciers and create their own Google Earth tour ...

The Lifestyle Projectpart of Cutting Edge:Topics:Public Policy:Activities This three-week project challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. Throughout the project, students reduce their impacts on the environment by changing the way ...

Is There a Trend in Hurricane Number or Intensity?part of Cutting Edge:Topics:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This lab guides students through an examination of the hurricane record to determine if there is a trend in hurricane intensity over the past 40 years and introduces some issues related to statistics and ...

Global Warming and Youpart of Cutting Edge:Climate Change:Activities This project is to build a concept map that represents the individual's relationship with the Earth System and the ways in which individual actions impact climate. This is at once the first and final activity ...

Forecasting Lake Effect Snow in Lake Superior regionpart of Cutting Edge:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This exercise is designed to present the realistic problems of forecasting weather. Lake effect snows are hard to forecast because they depend on information that isn't part of the regular set of information ...

Gulf Stream Heat Budget and Europepart of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Visualization:Examples Student groups are presented a problem scenario to research and make recommendations, predictions, and a resolution of the problem based on data and visualizations.

Coral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiterpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples This lesson plan deals with coral reefs and the recent crisis of coral bleaching. It suggests that students engage in a role-playing debate about modifying human activity to protect reefs. -

The Lifestyle Projectpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Experience-Based Environmental Projects This three-week project challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. Throughout the project, students reduce their impacts on the environment by changing the way in which they live from day to day.

Tropical Cyclones and Global Changepart of Cutting Edge:Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities This is a full semester project focusing on tropical cyclones and climate change for my undergraduate tropical meteorology class. It consists of five parts, outlined below.

California Climate: Pacific Ocean Connectionpart of Cutting Edge:Complex Systems:Teaching Activities I use this lesson as a group assignment in my Earth Science classes. In the face-to-face and field studies classes, the groups present their findings/and recommendations to the class on the last meeting day.

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